RESPONSE TO "VULNERABILITY OF 'A NOVEL PROTOCOL-AUTHENTICATION ALGORITHM RULING OUT A MAN-IN-THE-MIDDLE ATTACK IN QUANTUM CRYPTOGRAPHY' "

@article{Peev2004RESPONSET,
  title={RESPONSE TO "VULNERABILITY OF 'A NOVEL PROTOCOL-AUTHENTICATION ALGORITHM RULING OUT A MAN-IN-THE-MIDDLE ATTACK IN QUANTUM CRYPTOGRAPHY' "},
  author={Momtchil Peev and Christoph Pacher and Thomas Lor{\"u}nser and Michael Nolle and Andreas Poppe and Oliver Maurhart and Martin Suda and Alessandro Fedrizzi and Rupert Ursin and Anton Zeilinger},
  journal={International Journal of Quantum Information},
  year={2004},
  volume={7},
  pages={1401-1407}
}
In this work, we respond to a comment by A. Abidin and J.-A. Larsson on our previous paper, Int. J. Quant. Inf.3 (2005) 225. 
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